In the following problem, fill in the blanks with the appropriate numbers. You are pretending you are translating a Babylonian area problem like those described in the text. The problem to be solved is as follows:
The length of a rectangle minus its width is 38. The length times width is 1403. What is the length and the width?
Translation:
Take half the difference of the length and width, which is .
Square to get .
Add the area to get .
Take the square root to get .
The length is the square root plus half the difference. Length is .
The width is the sqaure root minus half the difference. Width is .
The length of a rectangle minus its width is 38. The length times width is 1403. What is the length and the width?
Translation:
Take half the difference of the length and width, which is .
Square to get .
Add the area to get .
Take the square root to get .
The length is the square root plus half the difference. Length is .
The width is the sqaure root minus half the difference. Width is .